Gestapo - Hitler's Secret Police 

My mother, aged 24 in 1943, was arrested by the French Vichy Police in Toulon, France and promptly handed over to the Gestapo which had German officers and French auxiliaries. She spent six months in solitary confinement in the Gestapo prisons in Toulon and Marseilles prior to 2 years in Dachau concentration camp and one of its subcamps in western Austria. She told me that the solitary imprisonment and prisoner treatment was far worse in the two Gestapo prisons in France than in the German concentration camps.

My grandfather in law, a German citizen and ww1 veteran, was arrested by the gestapo for speaking ill of AH in a bar near dusseldorf. He knew everyone in the village pub. There were no gestapo there. Theyd only have 10 - 15 officers for most cities anyway. It was citizens reporting each other for small benefits that kept the gestapo prisons full. He was released a week later, bruised and shaken. He spent the last few years of the war keeping himself to himself and was very grateful come liberation and never trusted his other local citizens again.

Thank you for actually showing everything and not blurring stuff out.

Imagine what a ww2 vet would say about the state of affairs today compared to back then

My Grandparents had a visit from the Gestapo at home in St Quentin in 1944. They were there to arrest their son (my uncle) not because he'd done anything wrong but because the local Kommandant had had his car vandalised and, as they had no idea who'd done it, they decided it was my uncle's turn to be imprisoned. My uncle was out having his haircut and they told the Gestapo this. Fine they said, and told them he'd have to hand himself in or they'd arrest my Grandfather - just as good in their view. A row ensued when my uncle got back. He didn't fancy a spell in a Gestapo cell. Eventually, my Grandfather opted to hand himself in instead. He returned to his frantic family a week later and told them he'd had a great time playing cards with other locals who'd been arrested. By that time, the Gestapo were well aware they were losing the war and harming or killing locals was pointless. An unexpected tale about the war but absolutely accurate according to my mum - the youngest of the family who witnessed it all.

Now I know who trains the reception staff at my doctor's.

People won’t acknowledge it but we are rapidly heading that way in Europe and Britain.

My goodness, finally a channel that doesn't sanitize everything, but show the real Carnage that needs to be shown, but is often blurred out by so many other channels. Subscribed.

How they threw people away like garbage is what gets to me. I'll never understand why humans could do this to others. Thank you for this excellent documentary about history. Lest we never forget. ❤

May I express my thanks for a well produced and presented documentary. England, October, 2023.

i lost a lot of my hearing in the service to the military, it is really difficult to hear the words sometimes, if this was closed captioned it would be much more entertaining. This is real important history. It seems to be repeating itself.

Hitler was no stranger to irony, He had the French sign the Armistice in the same rail car that Germany signed the Versailles Treaty.

My German grandparents living in Hamburg at the time and openly being against Hitler, were visited by the Gestapo quite often, lost everything they had and my grandfather was forced to join the army and sent off to Stalingrad on a bicycle. He barely survived, had parts of his feet removed because of frostbite and never spoke about Nazi Germany again in his life. He only told me once that as Germans we had to undergo the same contempt all Germans had to go through for the rest of his and our lives.

The last thing the Gestapo could be called is 'secret'.

The narrator couldn’t be more erudite and well spoken if he tried. It’s like having the privilege to sit in on Dr. Hannibal Lecter giving a PHD lecture on Nazis. This documentary is stupendous.

Very good documentary on the Gestapo. The name alone sent fear through me when I was child learning about WWII.

Most don’t know that after ww2 the US recruited 5000 former Gestapo agents to work for intelligence against the Soviets

These are the guys the German gov't send for you in 2023 when you call a guy fat on the internet.

THIS is one of the best documentaries I have seen. I've watched dozens of others but none have had the footage that I have seen here. They mostly keep using the same footage over and over. These are either from newsreels that I have never seen or diligent research has been done to find this film. Using Wagner as part of the soundtrack is brilliant. I have often wondered why more documentaries do not do this, unless it would be considered perversion of Wagner's genius. I know he was a huge anti Semite and Hitler loved the music. BRAVO-exceptional!!

The War Channel, I quite very much like the sound of that, subscribed.

Look what's happening here in America. Kids are calling the police of their parent.

Its funny how the music that inspired courage and resolve in nazi soldiers is now the music that plays on merry-go-rounds at carnivals and cheap theme parks

Here in America, I've warned of a revisit to the ways of Germany in the 1930's. The young don't see it because the don't know their history lessons.😢

This shit looks familiar....

We call ours the FBI

Wonder what someone like Julian Assange, (currently incarcerated in solitary UK high security prison) would make of this documentary.....the world has become a better safer place?....i don't think so.

I like your strains of Wagner's music in the background. It is at a nice volume and not distracting as is the case in some videos. Also, your content is outstanding.

Seems totally appropriate for RU-vid to be running a video on the topic of the Gestapo since Google and RU-vid are essentially modern versions of the Gestapo.

Hard to believe this is repeating itself just the players are different.

From this documentary we learned more about the war than we did about the Gestapo. Vicious though the Gestapo was, it did not run the extermination camps so the footage of such camps, their victims and their staff (at the end of the programme) is rather irrelavant. There is surely enough about the Gestapo that would fill a whole pgramme without all the extraneous bit thrown in. It even gave the Gestapo credit for running the Englandspiel in the Netherlands when that was run by the Abwehr.

My favorite thing about Hitler was how he tied his shoes....in little Nazis 😂😮😂

If the British men of 1939 could see Britain today, They wouldn't have bothered enlisting.

great production! no BS censorship

What difference is there between the cruel Gestapo and Schwabb, Gates, Fauci, Larry Fink, Harari etc.. ?

I worked for a survivor of the death camps. To know that the man saw these horrors and lived to tell the tale shook me at such a young age. The pure evil he witnessed cannot even be imagined.

An interesting video on a revolting subject. What is not remarked on is that a lot of the methods and possibly people involved in this seem to have, stripped of their overt violence, been incorporated into the Staatssicherheitsdienst of the German Democratic Republic.

The way things are going, this will be the UK in about 30 years.

3.22, Hitler was not voted chancelor, he was appointed by Hindenburg.

Thank you for sharing, to show that these things ACTUALLY happened. I truly hope our world can learn, and will fight to prevent such atrocities from happening ever again.

Every country should learn about the Nazis, so far the U.S. has not!

Also it appears that history does repeat with different disguise 🤔

(The war channel) always sharing wonderful historical coverage videos... especially about WW2 circumstances.... and other subjects....thank you for your respect ( the war channel) for sharing ..

Edmond Burk once said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." Think about that really and the history we hate so much We are steamrolling into the things we hate so much

Sometimes the video mixs up Gestapo and SD. Salon Kitty was SD action (by Walter Schellenberg) and not Gestapo action (Schellenberg was in it!). Gestapo was secret Police the SD was secret inteligence service. They helped each other, but two distinct services. The leader of the SD-Ausland (külföldi kémszolgálat) Schellenberg (from 1942) was not punished after war. Very few Nazi leader got this position!

It's amazing how easy it was for Hitler to find people to do this.

DESCRIBES MOST COUNTRY'S IN OUR TIME .

Very good documentation although it does not mention at all, the role of Great Britain in his rise to power and in the shaping some of his critical political choices.

Can one have secret police if everybody calls them the "secret police?"

same narrator of this, also narrated the beginning of Michael Caine's The Eagle Has landed.

We have them in England now ,funny how nothing changes

This is great! Thank you.

can someone please tell me what are the first and the second background title were? i pretty unfamiliar with those songs

What would happen after the planned murder on Heydrich was very well known to the British. However, as mentioned in the video post, at some point the population of Tsjekkoslovakia got somewhat settled in the new situation which didn't really amuse Churchill. Thus he decided to stir it up a little...Learing about Churchills'' plans Tsjek resistance warned him that any hit on Heydrich would have the most terrible consequences and advised against the coup. Churchill took notice but still went ahead although by introducing 2 "foreign" agents to do the job. The reprisals were in line with the expected, turning the Tsjek people more against the occupiers, the ultimate goal of the assassination.

Anarchy is not no order, it's natural order, not some adults telling other adults how they have to operate. It's voluntary cooperation.

German Soldier's Song - "Wenn wir Marschieren". 🌟🎥Judgement At Nuremberg 1961. The song, ""When We March" was an old Imperial German Army marching song from before World War I.

What a great illustration that thumbnail is.

Beautiful marching songs.

This must be the training video for the FBI

Funny how Himmler, Hirohito, and Julius Rosenberg looked alike

Many of Gestapo people were never captured

The sheer mediocrity of the culprits of bestial crimes against their fellow human beings is testament to the fact that such mentalities can be led willingly by those exercising influence and power to commeit their horrendous acts. The world continues to see this awful reality, like some eternal curse placed upon the human race.

The opening is spot on and scares me. Thank goodness Hitler did not win. But Lord help us that his current fanatics and followers do not carry out his hatred and ruin democracy. We should be caring for one another, not destroying one another.

We have them here in Canada now...... We call them the R C M P. This time, they're after regular, traditional, hard working citizens. Our "Leader" has now implemented assisted life enddding. Super stuff.

Excellent documentary, thank you. After watching it, I purchased "The Gestapo" by Carsten Dams & Michael Stolle & published by Oxford University Press to enhance what I learned here.

I see it. As a student of European history the signs are already there and have been since the 1980s. Just like in Europe in the 1880s. The re-rise of nationalism, the hatred of differing peoples, the mini wars, the saber rattling, simply put the general unease felt among citizenry of the nations in question. History repeats itself every one hundred years. All you have to do is look back in time to see where you’re going. Sickening that we, as thinking human beings, can’t learn lessons and have very short memories that don’t serve us well.

Question authority before it questions you!

What is the song in the begining called? Thanks for any help.

the gestapo had qualified immunity

Just see how easy it is to fool a nation.

Fun fact: the narrator is the same one from the first season of BlackAdder.

so much of this, had nothing to do with the Gestsapo.

Poor Fegelein.

Was the Gestapo something like the CIA, the DEA, or the NSA? Which one does it resemble more?

I used to watch this as The War File. A great series.

Thanks!

The Patriot act has people just like that get snagged by them you disappear

and when a documentary of japanese kenpeitai????

when you going to do one about FBI ?

I am watching the past, as if it was the future so much of this is terrible terrifying.

What is the name of the song at the beginning of this video?

The United POLICE States of America now looks a lot like Pre-WWII Germany.

These popo's still are a wet dream of some politicians these days..

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They see it like it's nothing.

i think a lot of things bad things going on then are same as 2023 wonder why ?????.

16:20 he's name was OTTO Adolf Eichmann. Karl Adolf Eichmann was the name of his father.

Does anybody the name of that song running in the background?

You never knew who the informant was, you never lived to tell the tale, whether the "Stapo", or "Stasi" it was the same people with a new name. They murdered people for making jokes about the system, or the leaders, or maybe you listened to the enemy propaganda, or even their music? They were the killers who came to collect you from home, church, your work place, living in Germany, (GDR) , up until 1989 was living with these monsters.

Thank goodness Hitler and his criminal gang were defeated! I thank the allied soldiers who risked and sometimes lost their lives to ensure that I have lived a free life in the UK

Deutschland, immer um Jahre voraus an der globalen Technologiespitze. 👍

Most youtube videos about this topic are censored from showing atrocities, somehow this one has managed to survive the censorship

victoria popo.....ottowa 5-0....FBI/ATF/DOJ.......they mustve taken notes

what was so secret about an institution that everyone knew about?

That slappin' intro song

There was only 5000 Gestapo agent in Germany throughout the war, and Germany had a population. Of 80 million

Pure evil

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And people say this country is more divided than ever or were the worst country in the planet

Interesting presentation. Too bad interrupted so many times by totally stupid and worthless commercials.

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